1998, Zinedine Zidane led to France conquering the World Cup and consequently won the Ballon d’Or that year. Then in 2002 the same thing happened to Ronaldo Nazario and 2006, with Fabio Cannavaro. However, In 2010, logic would be broken when Lionel Messi won the award When Spain was a world champion.
And that The Spanish national team had players from Barcelona, but more precisely it had Andrés IniestaHero in the final in South Africa, with his goal for extra time, which gave the World Cup to La Roja. And according to Zinedine Zidane, El Cerebro was robbed by her Ballon d’Or.
When he talked about what happened in 2010 years later, Zidane recognized: “I admired his way of playing and He didn’t win a Ballon d’O or he deserved it. He deserved to win when he won the World Cup, he had an exceptional year, he won the World Cup and scored the goal in the final. It is obvious that he deserved it. “
That year, Barcelona was champion for Laliga, but not in the Champions League. Still, Lionel Messi was top scorer in both races and stopped holding the award Although Argentina was eliminated in the quarter finals in the World Cup, at Germany.
France’s football editor apologizes to Iniesta
“Forgive us, Andrés,” Thus, the editorial staff for France’s football day Andrés Iniesta began announced his pension from the courts. Pascal Ferre, editor of the newspaper at that time, Otiledy apologized for the Ballon d’O or that they deprived him to win in 2010.
“For us he was not just a player, he was the player. His sacrifice for his team finally deprived him of having a greater individual recognition” Ferre marked in that article. “Of all absent on the list of Ballon d’Or winners, his is particularly painful. He is the largest facilitator in the game in the whole story.”
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To close, Ferre Andrés Iniesta’s game described on the track in a couple of simple phrases: “While most of his contemporaries are complicated, he has had football for 15 years, which makes everything easy. Without vanity, he just thinks about giving life to the game.“
Zidane’s comments and apology from France’s football highlight the widespread recognition of Iniesta’s talent and the feeling that he unfairly denied the Ballon d’Or 2010.
